Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development
§ 2285. Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund
Statutory text
There is established an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund. There is authorized to be appropriated to such fund $35,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after . Amounts in the fund 1 shall be available for undertaking, in advance of construction of any water resources project authorized to be constructed by the Secretary, such measures authorized as part of such project, including the acquisition of lands and interests therein, as may be necessary to ensure that project-induced losses to fish and wildlife production and habitat will be mitigated. The Secretary shall reimburse the Fund for any amounts expended under this section for a water resources project from the first appropriations made for construction, including planning and designing, of such project.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be capitalized.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 99–662 title IX § 908 · 100 Stat. 4082
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2285
(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 908, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4188.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 908, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4188.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 908. MITIGATION FUND. There is established an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund. There is authorized to be appropriated to such fund $35,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986. Amounts in the fund shall be available for undertaking, in advance of construction of any water resources project authorized to be constructed by the Secretary, such measures authorized as part of such project, including the acquisition of lands and interests therein, as may be necessary to ensure that project-induced losses to fish and wildlife production and habitat will be mitigated. The Secretary shall reimburse the Fund for any amounts expended under this section for a water resources project from the first appropriations made for construction, including planning and designing, of such project.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision